The vehicle lifts the spacecraft with experiments or paying spacefarers to space for minutes. Where it differs from Shepard's ...

The vehicle lifts the spacecraft with experiments or paying spacefarers to space for minutes. Where it differs from Shepard's ...

Ham the Astrochimp was launched from Brevard County for an 18-minute flight aboard a Mercury capsule that reached an altitude of 150 miles from Cape Canaveral.

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...

Where it differs from Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket is that the New Shepard rocket can land and be reused. Now Blue Origin hopes to accomplish the same with its multi-stage orbital New Glenn ...

Where it differs from Shepard's Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket is that the New Shepard rocket can land and be reused. Now Blue Origin has high hopes to accomplish the same with its multi-stage orbital ...